The Night Trade (A Livia Lone Novel Book 2) by Barry Eisler

Livia gets a visit from a man in Homeland Security who is kinda offering her a job. But because she is who she is, she can’t just say yes, even though she wants to. She talks him into letting her go to Asia for a little recon before she will accept. Livia wants to see if she can finish what she started in the first book, which is basically torturing and murdering everyone involved with her and her sister’s sex trafficking. She also thinks that he’s got another motive to wanting her on his team, ulterior or otherwise. She accidentally […]

Livia Lone (A Livia Lone Novel Book 1) by Barry Eisler

I think I downloaded this book a long time ago and somehow forgot about it? I have so many Kindle books that I lose track of them regularly. I think that’s probably a good problem to have. The way we start this story is from the perspective of a would be (and previous) rapist. He’s eyeing up his next target at a bar, and she seems like a sure thing. The whole time I was reading it, I was thinking “Holy crap, this better get flipped and she’s OK”, or something along those lines, probably with more profanity. The next […]

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult

Let’s just start off by saying that Jodi Picoult isn’t my favorite author, but sometimes she makes you think, and sometimes, she can put both sides of an argument on the table in a narrative form that can be somewhat entertaining. Picoult is sort of a guilty pleasure for me, except I rarely enjoy it, and Perfect Match was no exception. While it is meant to be a gripping and tense narrative about the explosion of lives after the molestation of a small boy in a small town and somewhat more importantly, the self-examination of a working mother after […]